title: Quality and culture of health.
abstract: Healthcare has as its framework, a culture of disease which primarily comes from biology, and is meant to: diagnose, cure, prevent and rehabilitate. Health problems show that the efforts and great advances in medicine are not enough. To improve actions within this same culture does not seem effective. Changes are needed to create a culture of health. The characteristics of nurses' work and its potential, open opportunities to improve the quality of care, having LIFE at the centre.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Obstetrics, National Polytechnic Institute.
authors.forename: Sara Alicia
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ponce de León Muñoz
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006285:Health Planning; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D011637:Public Health Nursing; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012940:Social Problems